Didn't run it (yet) but it looks nice. Great that some people are still able to optimize code! I'm wondering if this would run on actual hardware (VGA + a sound card supporting MPU401 emulation)
I ran a patched version of it on WinXP (DOS NTVDM), the sound works there! But it requires a few extra bytes to enable MIDI UART Mode first. On DosBox-X, this can simply be set in the config ;)
We're gonna find that Claude Mythos can do something like this in 255 bytes
I mean now that the (human written) source for this is out in the wild, of course it can ;)
Optimizing away one byte of this, given the source code? Yeah, could happen. Making a good 256 byte demo from scratch? No way.